Date/Time
Date(s) - 12 Apr 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
NYU 19 University Place
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New York University Medieval and Renaissance Center Presents a Workshop by Michael Witmore.
Docuscope is a text analysis environment with a suite of interactive visualization tools for corpus-based rhetorical analysis. In the first half of this workshop, Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, will discuss results of his work with Jonathan Hope of Strathclyde University using Docuscope to analyze Shakespeare and early modern drama both with respect to received definitions of genre and to experimental study of the early and late styles of Henry James. According to well-established scholarly consensus, James’ style underwent a quite radical set of changes during the late 1890s, emerging as a very richly nuanced, complex, and often difficult and obscure style that emphasizes the subtle intricacies of social and interpersonal relationships. A Docuscope test of James’s early and late texts may have much to say about how and where they differ.
This event will take place in The Great Room at 19 University Place.